Website Designers and Webmasters

As many young website designers do, when I first got started working with HTML and CSS, I tired to stay as far away from Unordered Lists (<ul>) and Ordered Lists (<ol>). Everyone has their own reasons, but I just thought there was too much to learn about it before I could get it to do what I want.

When you have a list of items, links, etc., it should be in a list

I found this amazing article about lists on AListApart.com: Taming Lists

(Lists are also what you would use to create a pop-up menu only using CSS.)

-Ashton Sanders

Their is magic in Cascading Style Sheets. (Some properties more than others, but still magic.) Float is one of those CSS properties that really fundamental for any developer trying to create layouts without any tables.

CSS – Float

There are three possible values for float: right, left and none. They are pretty self-explanatory, but here goes anyway:

Lets say you have a div that is 200px wide and 30px tall. Normally any content that comes after it would start at the bottom (30px bellow the top of the div.):

Here is the content that comes after the div.

Here is the content that comes after the div.

Here is the content that comes after the div.

-CSS Everywhere!
-Ashton Sanders

There is an awesome Flash Animation that you should definitely see.

There is very little ActionScript, but nonetheless it is one of those animations that you could just watch forever and still not see everything.

Click to see this Sweet Flash Animation.

(This was designed and Created by Geoffrey and Ashton Sanders of Websites in a Flash)

-Enjoy
-Ashton Sanders

What is a FavIcon?

A FavIcon is the image that appears in the left side of your address bar for certain sites. For example, here are the FavIcons for Websitesinaflash.com, Blogger.com and Google.com:

It is actually a very simple process thanks to HTMLkit.com. All you need to do is make a square image that you would like to become your FavIcon, and upload it to this site. They’ll give you a zip file with the FavIcon in it, and you can upload it to the root of your site. WALA! Here’s the site:

http://www.htmlkit.com/services/favicon/

-Ashton Sanders

My wanderings on the Internet brought me to Veerle’s Blog, where you can find an excellent method of creating and saving grunge brushes in PhotoShop.

(It’s also a well designed blog.)

-Ashton Sanders